Monday night brought stunning news about the battle against cancer. Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine said they have found a cure for cancer -- in mice, that is.

Three years ago, Wake Forest researchers discovered a mouse that could not get cancer no matter how hard they tried to give it the disease. Now, they said white blood cells from that mouse's descendants were injected into ordinary mice with cancer and their disease was completely wiped out. The treatment worked with a variety of cancers, including those similar to end-stage human cancers. The mice did not suffer any side effects from the treatment. They had no problems with rejection. The goal now is to find a human treatment that could avoid the rejection problem by using a patient's own cells. White cells from a cancer patient would be combined in a test tube with the specific anti-cancer gene and then given back to the same patient.

Honestly, this is promising news, but it's a "wait and see" for me as far as humans go. There are so many different types of cancer, so to say that cancer is cured (in mice) is a bit of a leap. With the similarities in physiology between humans and mice, this research is extremely important - but not a guarantee to work.